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n. The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; the obligation to bear the consequences for failure to perform as expected; accountableness. “The awful idea of accountability.” R. Hall.
Syn. -- answerability, answerableness [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. “General adaptability for every purpose.” Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + stability. ] (Mechanics) Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖a. [ It., cantare to sing. ] (Mus.) In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. (Mus.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See under Force. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being commutable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capacity of being odious. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dilatabilité. ] The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disreputable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of respectability. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. excitabilité. ] 1. The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being suitable for exportation. [ 1913 Webster ]

To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of fermentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Habitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being hereditable. Brydges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being heritable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Imitable. ] The quality of being imitable. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. immutabilitas: cf. F. immutabilité. ] The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. Heb. vi. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being impreventable; inevitability. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being imputable; imputableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incommutabilitas: cf. F. incommutabilité. ] The quality or state of being incommutable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being incontestable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indisputabilité. ] Indisputableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt; indubitableness.
Syn. -- indisputability, unquestionability, unquestionableness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. inévitabilité. ] Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being inexcitable; insusceptibility to excitement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Instabilities [ L. instabilitas: cf. F. instabilité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or condition of being unstable; lack of stability, firmness, or steadiness; liability to give way or to fail; insecurity; precariousness; as, the instability of a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc. Addison.

Syn. -- Inconstancy; fickleness; changeableness; wavering; unsteadiness; unstableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being insurmountable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being intransmutable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. irritabilitas: cf. F. irritabilité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle possesses, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See Irritation, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilité. ] The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Neut. pl. of L. notabilis notable. ] Things worthy of notice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Notabilities [ Cf. F. notabilité . ] 1. Quality of being notable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A notable, or remarkable, person or thing; a person of note. “Parisian notabilities” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A notable saying. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Palatableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The capability of becoming perfect; as, he believes in the ultimate perfectability of man; -- usually spelled perfectibility. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being precipitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being preventable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being ratable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being refutable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect. [ 1913 Webster ]